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Businessman to be jailed for stabbing lawyer in flat

A businessman will go to jail for trying to kill a lawyer who will also be serving time in prison for being in the private company of the businessman's wife and consuming alcohol in a flat.

  • By Bassam Za'za', Staff Reporter
  • Published: 00:00 February 8, 2007
  • Gulf News

Sharjah: A businessman will go to jail for trying to kill a lawyer who will also be serving time in prison for being in the private company of the businessman's wife and consuming alcohol in a flat.

The Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance sentenced the 33-year-old Jordanian businessman to three months for attempting to murder the 43-year-old UAE national by stabbing him with a knife when he found him sitting on a couch and consuming alcohol.

The lawyer and the 24-year-old Moroccan wife were given a sentence of three months for breaking the law by spending private time together in a flat without being committed religiously (khulwa).

The court ordered lashing the woman 80 times and the lawyer 70 times after they were found guilty of consuming liquor.

The woman was acquitted of having an illicit affair with a stranger for uncorroborated evidence, she will be deported after serving her term.

The businessman's legal representatives Jasem and Yasser Al Naqbi, of Excel Advocates and Legal Consultants, said "He is innocent of attempted murder.

The public prosecution should have considered charging him with assault which led to injuring the 43-year-old who should have been charged with trespassing into our client's flat."

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